The QualityUnit.Com Affiliate Program Details

Interview by Viktor Zeman

Viktor Zeman
( Quality Unit )

This interview was given to Affilla by Viktor Zeman, the Affiliate Manager of Quality Unit on 2010-02-15.

: Does your affiliate program require sign up approval? If so, what are your requirements?

We accept all affiliates, which are interested to offer our products. In case we will discover, that affiliate is referring just fraudulent orders, we will decline his account.

: Who is paid a commission if several affiliate links were clicked on by the buyer before his purchase? The first affiliate, the last one or is the commission somehow shared? If shared, please describe how exactly.

We honor all affiliates working on sale (we split commissions). First Affiliate gets bonus 10%, last affiliate gets bonus 20% and 70% of commission we split between all affiliates.

: Do you allow so-called self-purchases - purchases made by affiliates through their own affiliate links to earn commissions? How do you handle this? Is your policy clearly stated on your website? Is your policy stated in your Affiliate Agreement?

Yes, we allow self purchases. Affiliate needs to reach minimum $100 payout limit and refer minimum 2 separated sales to be payed - this is only protection in our affiliate program.

: Have you set up any payout threshold to protect your affiliates against self-purchases? Payout threshold, if set up correctly and combined with self-purchase prohibition policy, can protect affiliate rights being a one more barrier against self-purchases. If you allow self-purchases but set up a high payout threshold, please explain what for this is done. High thresholds make actually getting paid the commissions difficult. Is your payout threshold and self-purchases policy clearly reflected on your website and in your Affiliate Agreement? Do you explain the necessity of the threshold to your potential affiliates in your affiliate program promotional materials?

If affiliate refers next to his own sale one more sale, we will pay commissions without problems. Minimum payout limit is just $100 (commissions in our affiliate program are often much higher as $100), so often biggest limitation for new affiliates is just to refer one more sale next to his own sale.

: Some companies provide their affiliate programs through multiple affiliate networks at the same time. In some cases, affiliate programs are provided through one or more affiliate networks and through their own internal software. Is this your case? If yes, how many variants of your programs are available? How do they differ one from another (commission structure, cookie time, payout requirements, etc.)? Please be specific.

We offer only one affiliate program. Our affiliate program is powered by our own software called Post Affiliate Pro.

: Very Important! Do you pay commissions for the first direct sale only or do you keep paying commissions for the referred customer's further orders? I mean, is your program just a CPA (cost-per-acquisition) or is it a so-called revenue share (residual income) one? If it is a revenue share program how long and how much do you keep paying in commissions? Do you offer any cross-sell, follow-up-sell, up-sell products to your customers that are also eligible for affiliate commissions?

Our affiliates are payed for ALL sales, which does referred customer on our web site - we pay affiliate also for further orders of same customer ! Life time!

: Is your program a two-tier one? I mean do you pay commissions on sub-affiliate sales? If so how is the commission calculated for each of the parties? Is your second-tier commission calculated as a percentage of a sale amount or as a percentage of a first-tier commission (if it is not fixed, of course)?

We offer two tier affiliate program. On first tier can affiliate earn 30% - 50% (based on performance) and on second tier 5%. Commissions are computed always from sale amount. Parent affiliate gets always 5% of total sale amount.

: Do you offer commission levels based on the generated affiliate sale amount? If yes, please describe.

Yes, we pay our affiliate 30% - 50% of sale amount with following performance rewards: Referred sales monthly Commissions level 1 to 5 sales monthly 30% 6 to 10 sales monthly 40% 10+ sales monthly 50% Performance Bonus System: Once affiliate reached each level, our system will AUTOMATICALLY adjust his previous commissions during the period, so that ALL commissions earned during that period are paid at the NEW higher level.

: Most of affiliate program vendors provide affiliates with a set of banners and other promotional materials, do you? Do you also provide affiliates with articles, customizable video or PDF reports? Do you allow a so-called deep linking to your affiliates (to be able to send referrals not only to your default/home page but also to another page of their choice)?

We provide for affiliate banners and upon request we prepare also special promotion materials with our top selling affiliates. Affiliates can refer visitors to ANY web page on our domain, clicks are correctly tracked on every page of our website.

: As an affiliate, it is very important to be able to estimate how much I can make with your affiliate program. Can you provide statistical data like average sale amount, recurring sale amount? It's known that conversion depends on the traffic targeting. Anyway, what is your average conversion rate?

Conversion rate of our website (all traffic sources) is about 2%-3%, but some of our affiliates have conversion up to 10% - depends on quality of traffic. Average commission in our affiliate program is $91.43 and average sale amount is $228.53

: What type of support do you provide to your affiliates? (email, online-ticketing, forum and/or live chat or 24-hour live chat support).

We offer to our affiliates support by email, online ticketing, forum, live chat (24/5), phone - affiliates can use same support channels as we offer to our customers.

Feel free to contact Viktor Zeman with any questions you may have about the affiliate program